Kimi

“Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model from China, is matching or closely trailing top Western proprietary models across standard benchmarks — and its weights will be publicly released.”

“"This will have a vast range of positive effects, driving a boom in entrepreneurship and increasing the 'sovereign intelligence' available to anyone who can run the model, but will also yield various unknown unknowns."”

“"While its overall performance still trails the most powerful proprietary models, Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol, Kimi K3 demonstrated frontier-level performance across our evaluation suite, consistently outperforming other tested models."”

“Kimi K3 — The world's first open 3T-class model (279 votes)”

“We invested in Kimi, which is probably the domestic company most focused on agentic coding as a technical model company. In 2025 they completed a massive transformation and are now, we believe, possibly the world's best open-source coding model.”

“Cursor proved that even if you only have the 'shell,' the data that shell generates, combined with post-training, can produce a genuinely good model. Cursor's Composer — based on Kimi's pre-training and Cursor's own high-quality feedback data — is actually a quite good model.”

“If you ask most startups, most academia in the U.S. that are using open source, they're usually using Chinese open source models, right? You've probably heard of DeepSeek, of Qwen, of Kimi.”

“Zhou Xingyu of Kimi also used to do competitive programming.”